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sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Thanks for your feedback! Adding today.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

I didn't notice the user name! Sorry for beating a dead horse.

There is a lot of "toxic femininity" I'm with you on that.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Hi! I wrote all about this, you can read my thoughts here.

https://medium.com/thelist/papas-please-let-your-babies-grow...

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

As general practice, I never ask people about their genitals.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

<3!!

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Thank you! I respect your opinion as well, it's great to hear it. We all have our own version of feminism, and everyone is working towards similar goals. Man, making the next Tamagotchi would be amazing, I wonder if anyone has started?

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Hi! Our patent covers the ability to communicate from wearable to wearable using BLE. I hope that he fact that we're completely open source, from hardware to firmware to software, encourages others to share.

As far as advertising, I get that. Feedback received. Thanks.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Hi! If you want, you could use the code FACEBOOK for 25% off. I don't know if that gets closer to your budget. If not, email me at sara[at]jewelbots.com. Our goal is to get as many of these into little hands as possible.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

lol, women in tech panels are the WORST.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Hi! That grade school teacher needs a few more science lessons.

We have lots of users that identify as male. Boys love Jewelbots, two weeks ago at an event a boy came up to me after to tell me "this was more fun than coding Minecraft". Best compliment in a while.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Far be it for me to be prescriptive about what girls and boys should like. Truly, we think of ourselves as more "feminine" in design. Some boys like things that are feminine, there are many people that identify as feminine.

We are here to change the number of coders that identify as female. In order to do that, we talked to a lot (over 200!) of kids that identify as female and built what they asked us to build.

You can read more about our reasoning here: https://medium.com/jewelbots-weblog/what-if-we-could-build-m...

and my view on femininity here: https://medium.com/thelist/papas-please-let-your-babies-grow...

Thank you for your feedback and thoughts, these conversations are super important if we are going to change the number of women in computer science.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Yeah, right? I don't think the drag -> drop coding does a lot of help when it comes to learning.

Talking to my male peers, I learned that most of them started coding when they were Tweens, largely because they wanted to make games or found an open source project they loved. Jewelbots are designed to be the same for girls. So far so good!

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

This is so kind, thank you!!

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Hi! I hope we don't get discarded! We're a new product, so we don't yet have too much data about retention. We do know that 44% of our users code their Jewelbots using C++, many as first time coders! We also are about to ship our 10,000th unit. That makes over 4,000 new coders in the world (many younger than 10 years old)!

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Yes! I love this idea and we are working on something similar currently.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

We do have patents, thank goodness! Our manufacturing costs are no where near $10, that would be amazing. We have a more advanced chipset than a Fitbit and all the capabilities of an Apple Watch (without the screen). Jewelbots can have 8 simultaneous central and peripheral relationships via bluetooth. We are the only wearable device that talks to other wearable devices! (we are also completely open source!)

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Hi! We talked to over 200 girls when making this product, rest assured that every design decision was made with their feedback in mind.

Boys also love playing with Jewelbots, but there are already a lot of coding toys aimed at boys!!! Our market primarily identifies as female, but we'll broaden down the road.

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Thanks so much for your feedback! Sounds like we have some things to add to the FAQ!

Jewelbots can be programmed just like an Arduino using C++. Real code! Because we believe that kids are super smart (Also, I starting writing C++ at 11).

sarajoon Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code

Hi! We're a 5 person team located in NYC. I'm the marketing team (plus my cofounder Brooke). This is all super helpful feedback, thank you!

sarajoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

Thank god we have people like Darth Google looking out for the white guys.

sarajoon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

LOLOLOL "Dear Darth Google"

sarajoon An open letter on feminism in tech

I'm one of the posters of this article, it was infuriating to me to have my experiences discounted.

sarajoon An open letter on feminism in tech

I deleted as it wasn't a useful conversation either way.

sarajoon Recruiting: There is no such thing as a developer shortage

Not according to the Collage Board Research Report done in 2011 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/zb6oconppspu388/svm4hp...